Housing law makes access to affordable homes in Mallorca difficult
The law needs to be repealed in order to increase the supply of housing and to make it more affordable.
Fuera Okupas, a company for removing squatters
Fuera Okupas outside a building with squatters.
Balearics - one of the regions with the highest increase in squatting
Fuera Okupas, a company which acts as an intermediary to convince squatters to leave properties.
Airport woes, estate agent joy - Mallorca news round-up
Some of the stories that have been in the news over recent days.
Police assaulted as they prevent three squats in Palma in a matter of hours
The incidents were similar in that alarm systems had been disabled.
A squat in Palma, Mallorca
A squat in Son Güells, Palma.
Selling properties in Mallorca that have squatters
Up to 50% of properties being sold by banks and other financial entities have squatters.
Palma squatter arrested twice in two days
He is apparently well known for attempted squatting.
Squatters arrested having occupied a property while the owner was in hospital
The squatters had over 40 previous police records between them.
Squatter in a critical condition after fall from a building in Inca
He and two others with him are known to Inca police.
Squatters charging for rooms at old barracks in Palma
Son Busquets has been abandoned. At the old military barracks there is no security.
Squatters at a property in Sencelles, Mallorca
The owners have been subjected to insults and threats.
The squatters of a guest house in Mallorca who have terrorised the owners
A Spanish couple were offered accommodation in exchange for work. After two months, they stopped working and had no intention of leaving.
The owner's fear of the 'tenant-squatter' in Mallorca
A couple of months' rent is paid and then tenants stop paying it.
Evicted - the squatter who took over a three-million-euro Palma property
The court procedure to evict him had taken a month.
Incident by a squat in Palma, Mallorca
Up to thirty police went to the scene.
Nine arrests after attempt to remove squatters in Palma
Knives and clubs were being brandished.
The Son Vida squatter who installed an alarm system
He moved into the three-million-euro property a year or so ago.
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